The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-07-20

lNoN' IL " IlOWdTu OF lkOXDury. 60 Dr.
A. A. Minott went to Montreal Tuesday to
attend the annual meeting of the Connecti-
cut Valley Dental Society. He will return
Saturday.
Gouldsville.
FRED CHANDLER and wife Of Concord, N.
H., have been visiting his mother 80
Eugene Harwood has gone to Lebanon, n.
H., to work. == There was an ice-cream
party at Charles Andrews last Saturday
evening for the benefit of the fife and drum
corps. - Marcia Hutchins is visiting her
father. 60 S. f. Thompson has moved
into the house owned by l.. S. Hutchins.
- Mrs. Sadie Priest of Cambrdgeport,
Mass, is at home on a visit. - +. f.
Sisco of White River Junction, former
resident of this place, made his old friends a
call last week.
Waitsfield.
HAVING will be well finished in town this
week. - Competent teachers have been
secured for the high school this fall. -
Eugene McCarty and Andrew Bigelow had
each fine boy added to their families the
past week. - Miss Caro- Bucklin of
Des Mones, Iowa, is visiting friends in
town. - Charles Waterman is at home
for few weeks from his school duties in
Iowa. - Charles Savage had the mis-
fortune to lose a colt the past week. Quite
number have had similar misfortune.
j. f.. Josin has new bicycle and is
getting to be quite an expert rider. -
j. II. Strong fell from load of hay and
broke his collar-bone and severely injured
the spinal column Physicians say that he
is permanently injured. - l.. ID. Savage
lost two cows last week by what is supposed
to be pleuro-pneumonia, and at this writing
(Monday) Fred Parker has one sick with
symptoms of the same disease. - There
being no preaching at the Congregational
church, the members of that church wor-
SHIPPED with their Methodist brethren last
Sunday morning and listened to an able
sermon by Rev. .. ID. Clapp.
Warren.
The Good Templars received eight new
members into their lodge last Saturday
evening - Several of the schools in
town closed with picnics. All the schools
have closed but one, and that will close this
week. - Lyman Heath found one of
and had to kill it. - Two of the fresh
air children from New York arrived in town
last week.
Waterbury,.
The lawn party given Friday evening by
the ladies of this village for the benefit of
Citizens band was well attended, and good
time was enjoyed by all present. During
the evening the band discoursed some ex-
cellent selections, showing marked change
in their style of playing from one year ago.
- A party OF young people, accom-
panied with tin-horns and the like, left for
CamePs Hump Tuesday morning. - The
young peoples society of the Methodist
church give an entertainment at the hotel
hall this Wednesday, evening, consisting
of recitations, tableaux, statuarv farmers
songs, etc The exercises will begin at half
past seven. A small admission fee will be
charged. - Rev. A. b. TruaX ofMontpe-
lier, the new presiding elder and former
pastor in this village, will preach in the
Methodist church next Sunday, both morn
| ing and evening.
Waterbury Center.
IT is expected that Rev. j. w. Burgn will
preach at the Baptist church next Sunday.
- Mrs. r. II. Mather, with her chill
| dren, has gone to Essex y. Y, to visit for
a few weeks. - Mrs. p. a. Cleveland of
Washington, ID. c., arrived in this place last
week to spend the summer. She has been
here two seasons before, and thinks there
is no place equal to this for spending the
summer. - Mrs. Minnie Peet, with her
mother, from Burlington, is visiting in town.
Mrs. Peet was former student at the Sem
mary and is meeting many of her old school
mates. - Mrs. c. S. Lord of Winooski
has class in painting at Mrs. Pratt's
- Arthur NJ. Foster and family of Lone
| Rock, Wis, are here on visit to his father,
l.. r. Foster. - Mrs. Hattie Dufur and
her daughter Jennie have returned to live
with Mrs Dufur's mother. - b. E. Wal
lace is home for two weeks vacation. Mr.
Wallace has earned this rest, as it is the
first for five years - Miss Josie Hop
kins of Burlington is at Chauncy Lyons.
- Mrs. j. A. Robinson is camping at
Camp Lookout on Berlin pond - Mrs.
T. G. Wright, whose health is very poor, has
gone to stay few weeks with her mother
- Mr.. and Mrs. Pierce Ladd of Barre
are visiting their daughter, Mrs. Irving Hill.
Woodbury..
SCHOOL at the Center, taught by Miss
Cora Daniels, closed Friday evening, July
Sth, with rhetorical exercises at the town
hall. The following scholars had neither
absent nor tardy marks: Guy Chadwick,
Blanche Lawson, Bessie, Blanche, Carl and
Flora Drenan, Norma Mcknight Lee Os-
good, Alton Sulham and Eta jackson.
Those having absent but no tardy marks
were Bert and May Benjamin. Maude
and Mabel Burnham, Erwin Duke
leach absent one day, Elon Carr, Inez
Mckinstry, Elwin Burnham, Howard
Nichols, Lila Voodry Elmer and Vernon
Answorth. Those not absent and having
but one tardy mark were Laura and Eliza
McKinstry. Several scholars did not miss
a word during the term Carl Drenan a
boy of ten, missed but one word. The gem
eral average of the school in department and
scholarship was about ninety per cent on a
scale of one hundred per cent. Mabel Burn
ham ranked the highest in general scholar
ship - Nathan Batchelder and wife of
Hardwck are visiting Mrs. Batchelder's
mother, Mrs, p Lilly. M. E. Foster
had the misfortune to get bad cut on his
arm with a scythe recently. DR.. Gray of
Calais was obliged to take three stitches to
get it closed before he could do it up. -
Peter Batchelder of Salem, \. H., was in
town Sunday. - Mrs. F. NJ. Bill of
Lowell, Mass, is in town for a stay of few
weeks. - ID. Leslie and wife Of Wheel
ock visited Mrs. Lesles mother Mrs. Pat
rick Lilly, last week.
South Woodbury..
EDDIE FOSTER received a severe cut on his
arm below the elbow with a scythe, which
slipped from the hands of Gilman Bill, who
was sharpening it, - A party of summer
boarders from the city arrived at Samuel
Benjamin's last Saturday. - George
Lawson sold a three -year-old colt recently
for $50. - Herbert Lance returned
from "A visit to DR.. Jewell of West Concord
| last Saturday.
Worcester.
WORK on the new Methodist church is
progressing rapidly. When finished the
church will be an ornament to the place.
Rev. Mr.. Tenney supplied the pulpit of the
! Congregational church last Sunday and
gave very fine discourse. - Stephen
Ladd and family and Rev. Joseph Ladd
and family of Illinois arrived Monday,
the 18th instant, on a visit to their brother,
G. Nj. Ladd. == Luther Hambet of Mas
sachusetts is in town.
Putnamsville.
Mrs. w. b. DILLON has gone to New